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      DillonAllen
      last edited by

      Okay, so now I have reflashed my system with the most updated version and have reconfigured everthing that I believe that I needed to, but the problem now is that when I run the voxl-streamer command I get stuck at "Using configuration file /etc/modalai/voxl-streamer.conf" like this:
      yocto:/$ voxl-streamer
      Using configuration file /etc/modalai/voxl-streamer.conf

      and it does the same for any of the other cameras that I try.

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        A Former User
        last edited by

        So now you can run it with any of the configuration options specified in that file such as:

        voxl-streamer -c tracking
        

        for tracking or

        voxl-streamer -c stereo
        

        for the stereo cameras

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          DillonAllen
          last edited by

          Yes, but when I try to run it I just get stuck at "Using configuration file ..."

          yocto:/$ voxl-streamer -c tracking
          Using configuration tracking
          Using configuration file /etc/modalai/voxl-streamer.conf
          

          And I've left it for almost 5 minutes with it stuck at this stage.

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            A Former User
            last edited by

            Is voxl-camera-server running? You can check with

            voxl-inspect-services
            
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              DillonAllen
              last edited by

              It is enabled but not running, so how would I go about running it?

              yocto:/$ voxl-inspect-services
               Service Name        |  Enabled  |   Running   |  CPU Usage
              --------------------------------------------------------------
               docker-autorun      | Disabled  | Not Running | Not Running
               docker-daemon       | Disabled  | Not Running | Not Running
               modallink-relink    | Disabled  | Not Running | Not Running
               voxl-camera-server  |  Enabled  | Not Running | Not Running
              
              
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                A Former User
                last edited by

                You can run it with:

                systemctl start voxl-camera-server
                

                If it is enabled but not running though that means that it crashed on startup (or you stopped it). If you didn't manually stop it that means it encountered an error which is usually due to a bad camera connector causing the driver to throw an error. If you start it and it still shows up as stopped afterwards could you run it manually with:

                voxl-camera-server -d 0
                

                and paste the output here

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                  DillonAllen
                  last edited by

                  Here is the output:

                  yocto:/$ voxl-camera-server -d 0
                  ------ voxl-camera-server INFO: Port J2
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server: Done configuring hires camera
                  	 Port       : port_J2
                  	 Name       : hires
                  	 Enabled    : 1
                  	 Type       : hires
                  	 Api        : hal3
                  	 P-W        : 640
                  	 P-H        : 480
                  	 P-Fmt      : nv21
                  	 FPS        : 30
                  	 OverrideId : -1
                  	 AEAlgo     : isp
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server INFO: Port J3
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server: Done configuring stereo camera
                  	 Port       : port_J3
                  	 Name       : stereo
                  	 Enabled    : 1
                  	 Type       : stereo
                  	 Api        : hal3
                  	 P-W        : 1280
                  	 P-H        : 480
                  	 P-Fmt      : nv21
                  	 FPS        : 30
                  	 OverrideId : -1
                  	 AEAlgo     : modalai
                  =================MODALAI Auto Exposure Settings==================
                  gain_min:                        0
                  gain_max:                        1000
                  exposure_min_us:                 100
                  exposure_max_us:                 33000
                  desired_msv:                     58.000000
                  k_p_ns:                          32000.000000
                  k_i_ns:                          20.000000
                  max_i:                           250.000000
                  p_good_thresh:                   3
                  exposure_period:                 1
                  gain_period:                     2
                  display_debug:                   no
                  exposure_offset_for_gain_calc:   8000
                  =================================================================
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server INFO: Port J4
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server: Done configuring tracking camera
                  	 Port       : port_J4
                  	 Name       : tracking
                  	 Enabled    : 1
                  	 Type       : tracking
                  	 Api        : hal3
                  	 P-W        : 640
                  	 P-H        : 480
                  	 P-Fmt      : raw8
                  	 FPS        : 30
                  	 OverrideId : -1
                  	 AEAlgo     : modalai
                  =================MODALAI Auto Exposure Settings==================
                  gain_min:                        0
                  gain_max:                        1000
                  exposure_min_us:                 100
                  exposure_max_us:                 33000
                  desired_msv:                     58.000000
                  k_p_ns:                          32000.000000
                  k_i_ns:                          20.000000
                  max_i:                           250.000000
                  p_good_thresh:                   3
                  exposure_period:                 1
                  gain_period:                     2
                  display_debug:                   no
                  exposure_offset_for_gain_calc:   8000
                  =================================================================
                  
                  Writing new configuration to /etc/modalai/voxl-camera-server.conf
                  Created pipe: hires_preview channel: 0
                  Created pipe: stereo channel: 1
                  Created pipe: tracking channel: 2
                  Starting Camera: tracking
                  SUCCESS: Camera module opened
                  ----------- Number of cameras: 0
                  
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server INFO: Camera server is now stopping
                  		There is a chance that it may segfault here, this is a mmqcamera bug, ignore it
                  
                  ------ voxl-camera-server INFO: Stopping tracking camera
                  Fault address: 0x68
                  Address not mapped.
                  Segmentation fault
                  

                  I do have the J3 and J2 ports using the MIPI extension cables if that might be causing problems

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                    A Former User
                    last edited by

                    You have all of the cameras indicated there plugged in (hires, stereo, tracking)?

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                      DillonAllen
                      last edited by

                      Yes, and I've double checked that they are all in the correct ports

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                        A Former User
                        last edited by

                        It's also possible that your extension cables are plugged in backwards, 90% of that output is reading the config file at /etc/modalai/voxl-camera-server.conf. The critical part is the

                        ----------- Number of cameras: 0
                        

                        This is the response from the driver when we asked how many cameras it sees, it will often refuse to open any of them if any of the lines are incorrect, could you show a picture of you cable setup?

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                          A Former User
                          last edited by

                          There could also be a break in one of the cable lines (they can bend gently but should not be folded to an angle)

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                            DillonAllen
                            last edited by DillonAllen

                            Sorry for the late response, I've been doing some testing. so I've narrowed it down to the error lying in the stereo cameras, I connected each sensor one at a time, reconfigured, and ran the voxl-streamer and was able to get footage for the hires and tracking, but when it came to the stereo it would not work. When I would reboot the system and inspect the services I would see that the voxl-camera-server is running, but once I tried to voxl-streamer -c stereo it would get stuck at the same place and the voxl-camera-server would stop running. I've confirmed that both of my extension cables are working by testing them with the hires camera. I checked the physcial connections on the stereo cameras and there are no creases in them, they look just as they were folded with the original setup, and I believe that if any of the connections were inverted then the VOXL wouldn't even start up.

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